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FUCKED UP

July 14, 2022 @ 9:00 pm

 |  $20 – $25

Details

Date:
July 14, 2022
Time:
9:00 pm
Cost:
$20 – $25
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.sinclaircambridge.com/events/detail/404861

Venue

The Sinclair
52 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Phone:
(617) 547-5200
Website:
http://www.sinclaircambridge.com
About

I was sent an unfinished version of Dose Your Dreams so that I might contribute string parts. I couldn’t stop listening to the rough mixes I received. A friend asked me how the record was. I replied, “My God, Fucked Up have made their Screamadelica.”

And psych-rock-groove it is. The drums mixed wide, propensity for drones, for delay pedal, for repetition, groove. The politics and aesthetics of hardcore married to an “open format” approach to genre. Elements of doo-wop, krautrock, groove, digital hardcore.
“None of Your Business Man” opens the album in familiar enough territory, a sax-assisted exit from an office space. But things get psychedelic very quickly. By the time the title track arrives, Mike Haliechuk is whispering, wah pedals are in full effect, and we’re wearing oversized t-shirts and pinwheeling. “Accelerate,” the lyrical centerpiece of the album, storms in like Boredoms on a bullet train and dissolves into a digital nightmare. The album closer, “Joy Stops Time,” finds Fucked Up at their most Düsseldorfian, nearly eight minutes of blissful motorik.